Improvement in folding wash-benches



(1. KING.

Folding Wash-Benches.

Pa tented Dec. 24, 1872 N VEN TOR. al/6;

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GEORGE KING, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING WASH-BENCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,149, dated December 24, 1872.

in Portable Wash-Benches, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a view of the form, adjusted for use, turned upside down, and Fig. 2 is a view of the form folded up.

The device is a bench or form which can be folded into a small compass,

The top of the form is composed of two boxhalves, a a, hinged together by the hinges b b, so that they will shut together, and may be held shut by the hook 0 taking into an appropriate ring on the other box-half. The legs d d, united by the cross-piece d, and forming a leg-frame, so to speak, are pivoted or hinged to the under side of the table-top, so that they may fold down into the box-halves. They are 7 held extended-when desired by the rods e e taking into the staples on the inner side of the cross-pieces d 01. These cross-pieces are set back from the inner sides of the legs so as to give space for the rods to lie under them when the leg-frames are folded down. There are handles ff attached to the box-halves, so that the whole maybe readily carried by means of them when the whole is folded up into a box, as shown in Fig. 2.

I claim as my invention-- The combination of the box-halves a a hinged together, the folding leg-frames d d hinged to the box-halves, and the hooks e e, the legframes and hooks so attached within the boxhalves as to be excluded from sight when the box-halves are closed together, the whole constructed and designed to operate substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE KIN G. \Vitnesses:

WM. E. SIMONDS, S. J. SIMONDS. 

